On February 3rd, the English 4 Non-Western literature class learned from a whole new perspective by touring the Ann & Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Museum, Crow Museum, and the Dallas Museum of Art. Non-Western Literature is a senior class taught by Mrs. Row and Mr. McGowan. The class explores the modern books of various cultures not typically discussed in English class. The...
Honors English Seminar takes a walking tour of downtown Dallas.
      Stepping off the bus onto Harwood Street alongside the Modern Art Museum, English students beheld a relatively familiar sight. Lingering for only a short while to glance at posters advertising The Mourners and an African Mask exhibit, we bolted across the street to the Trammel Crow Center, not to see...
This past Tuesday, October 11, 2011, Ms. Sheryl Row took her senior Honors English Seminar class on a field trip to three Museums in the Fort Worth area. On the way there the students learned a neat Dallas history fact when they drove by Eagle Ford District 49 Grade School, the first school for Mexican immigrants in the Dallas...
Next semester, on the 21st of February, Jesuit's English Department will be hosting this year's annual Interscholastic Colloquium.
Now you might ask what is a colloquium, well to put it simply a colloquium is an opportunity to present and defend your interpretation, thesis, and essay in response to a topic and piece of literature.
The focus for this colloquium will be...
Mr. Goll is an English teacher at Jesuit who pushes his students to excel in and outside the classroom. He truly models the mission and philosophy of Jesuit Dallas: "to offer an excellent, Catholic education in the classical Jesuit tradition to form a community of men with high moral principles who are dedicated to serving others."
So, I conducted a...
On Wednesday and Thursday of the past week, February, 23 - 24, 2011, students from Mrs. Mary Beth Farrell’s and Dr. Michael Degen’s Junior AP Literature classes participated in a unique reflection activity about their required reading material, A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. This synthesis activity is known as a News Conference, where about half of the...
At the start of the 2022-23 school year, Jesuit Dallas welcomed many new faculty members. Mr. Drew Maddox is the newest member of the Department of English. The Department of English designs its core curriculum to provide all students guided instruction in reading and writing techniques. All of this shape a student who grows fully in the presence and...
In conjunction with reading the Swedish novelist Henning Mankell, the Honors English Seminar class visited the Jack Evans Police Headquarters on Lamar St. near downtown Dallas. Built in 2003, the new police headquarters houses 3,600 Dallas police officers who make up the 9th largest Police Department in the United States.
Our tour began in the Chief of Police’s office and...
